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My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.

DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.

You go to Miami, and you might only hear one Tyga song on the radio. You go to L.A., and you might hear six or seven on the radio. There's certain things you do for your city.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

I didn't know of any rappers in Charlotte. Not to sound like I'm bragging, but I brought the music scene alive and shed the proper light on it. I took it to a whole other level when I started rapping.

I want to make a good impact on the K-pop music world.

I think for a while, a lot of artists were doing great things that... were broadening the audience so that country was cool.

I'm so grateful to Spotify for the enormous support to the reggaeton movement.

Punjabis are the only people keeping non-film music alive in a big way.

Any city that's worth a dang certainly has a musical heartbeat, a culture, and a scene that can stand on its own.

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to think, and that's just the way it is.

I just don't want any songs to go unheard.

Everything I do is in a New York state of mind. I'm indebted to preserving the sound of the city.

There's always a market for music.

I want to work very hard on music, put out a lot of nice product - good quality product - and then just help people out, like a Gucci Mane, like a Future... like a Prince, like a Michael Jackson.

So if radio flops, and MTV flops and everything flops, it doesn't matter, as long as we're still playing and kids are coming to our shows.